{"id":20102,"date":"2026-06-26T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=20102"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:10:14","slug":"un-human-rights-office-marks-international-day-in-support-of-victims-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=20102","title":{"rendered":"UN Human Rights Office Marks International Day in Support of Victims of Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-section-id=\"1e3x7xh\" data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1613\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1611\">Geneva, Switzerland (HRNW)- <\/strong><\/span>On <strong data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1718\">25 June 2026<\/strong>, ahead of the <strong data-start=\"1733\" data-end=\"1787\">International Day in Support of Victims of Torture<\/strong>, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) renewed its call for governments to eradicate torture and ensure justice for survivors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"2188\">The Office emphasized that torture is prohibited under international law without exception and urged States to strengthen accountability, rehabilitation services, and legal safeguards for victims.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2190\" data-end=\"2304\"><strong data-start=\"2190\" data-end=\"2209\">Support Appeal:<\/strong><br data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2212\" \/>Support the World&#8217;s 1st Human Rights News Portal HRNW:<br data-start=\"2266\" data-end=\"2269\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2269\" data-end=\"2304\">https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"1292b5k\" data-start=\"2311\" data-end=\"2351\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland (HRNW)- On 25 June 2026, ahead of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) renewed its call for governments to eradicate torture and ensure justice for survivors. The Office emphasized that torture is prohibited under international law without exception&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20104,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions\/20104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}